Bo Tiojanco
@botiojanco.bsky.social
Family man. Lives in Sweden. Teaches Transnational Law & Political Economy at the University of Tokyo. Writes on Constitutional Law. Graduated from Yale Law School and the University of the Philippines.
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Bo Tiojanco
@botiojanco.bsky.social
· Nov 25
John Hart Ely would disown Comparative Political Process Theory, Dobbs, and most his other intellectual heirs (or maybe not) | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core
John Hart Ely would disown Comparative Political Process Theory, Dobbs, and most his other intellectual heirs (or maybe not)
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A Third World Approach to Comparative Constitutional Law? Here's my first jab at it.
@globcon.bsky.social a love letter to Akhil Amar's Reading the Constitution course at Yale Law School that @gautambhatia88.bsky.social & I took. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@globcon.bsky.social a love letter to Akhil Amar's Reading the Constitution course at Yale Law School that @gautambhatia88.bsky.social & I took. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Carlsberg should probably be the beer of choice of academics...
October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Carlsberg should probably be the beer of choice of academics...
I love working at the office. @utokyoofficial.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I love working at the office. @utokyoofficial.bsky.social
Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change. This is @pstamase.bsky.social & my chapter for Ngoc Son Bui & Mara Malagodi (eds), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Vol 2: Constitutional Amendments (Hart 2024)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change
<p>This chapter explains why the 1987 Philippine Constitution remains unamended despite repeated attempts. It advances three related arguments: first, although
papers.ssrn.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Parrying Amendments: The Philippines' Multi-Tiered System of Constitutional Change. This is @pstamase.bsky.social & my chapter for Ngoc Son Bui & Mara Malagodi (eds), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Vol 2: Constitutional Amendments (Hart 2024)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein
October 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I am a deeply religious unbeliever. - Albert Einstein
What I'm reading for an academic freedom & comparative constitutional studies paper: the intellectual process of Einstein, Newton, and other Physicists
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
What I'm reading for an academic freedom & comparative constitutional studies paper: the intellectual process of Einstein, Newton, and other Physicists
Nice day to work outside
September 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Nice day to work outside
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big fan of LPE but feel weird about the Project's association with Yale/it being grant-funded?
well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot)
give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!
well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot)
give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!
July 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
big fan of LPE but feel weird about the Project's association with Yale/it being grant-funded?
well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot)
give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!
well, have I got the member-based, dues-paying organization for you! (and it comes with a big inaugural conference to boot)
give them a follow at @a-lpe.bsky.social !!
Just published:Journal of Japanese Law (@maxplancklaw.bsky.social ) special issue on Comparative Political Process Theory. These are the Japanese author papers from the 2023 conference at @utokyoofficial.bsky.social organized by
our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon
www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...
our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon
www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...
Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht
Die 1996 gegründete Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law versteht sich als internationales Periodikum für in- und ausländische Wissenschaftler und Praktiker mit Interesse am jap...
www.zjapanr.de
July 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Just published:Journal of Japanese Law (@maxplancklaw.bsky.social ) special issue on Comparative Political Process Theory. These are the Japanese author papers from the 2023 conference at @utokyoofficial.bsky.social organized by
our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon
www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...
our Transnational Law Center & Ros Dixon
www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zj...
Beer with legal historians in between conference events at Hungary. We missed you @fernandapirie.bsky.social . I'm sorry to hear about your luggage.
July 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Beer with legal historians in between conference events at Hungary. We missed you @fernandapirie.bsky.social . I'm sorry to hear about your luggage.
Last note to the kids before flying to Tokyo
June 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Last note to the kids before flying to Tokyo
our special issue of @globcon.bsky.social is finally out! The New Comparative Political Process Theory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global Constitutionalism: Volume 14 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
June 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
our special issue of @globcon.bsky.social is finally out! The New Comparative Political Process Theory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The thesis I'm supervising cites "Usher (2015)" leading my brain to suddenly play "You Make me Wanna" in my head
May 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The thesis I'm supervising cites "Usher (2015)" leading my brain to suddenly play "You Make me Wanna" in my head
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
April 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro.
April 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro.
When I'm in Tokyo working at the office is better than working from home
April 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
When I'm in Tokyo working at the office is better than working from home
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In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport people under an 18th century wartime law. However, it stipulated that those subject to law are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Deport People Under Wartime Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to deport people under an 18th century wartime law. However, it stipulated that those subject to law are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal.
Foodcourts in Japan provide rags to customers so they can wipe their tables clean after eating.
April 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Foodcourts in Japan provide rags to customers so they can wipe their tables clean after eating.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
Reposted by Bo Tiojanco
A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
April 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...